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The Bang-Bang Club

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by Greg Marinovich


  Buthelezi, Chief Mangosuthu

  button-smokers

  Camera Press

  Canon

  Cape Town

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Kevin

  appearance

  arrested

  becomes a news-photographer

  belief that has been fired

  and Boipatong massacre

  in Bophuthatswana

  childhood

  commits suicide

  covers the election for Agence France Presse

  disc-jockeying

  drug abuse

  effect of trauma

  and the elections

  financial problems

  funeral

  goes AWOL from the military

  joins Reuters

  in Kathlehong

  Kathy kicks him out

  loss of the Mozambique film

  love life

  Mandela sworn in as president

  the Mitterand assignment

  the Mozambique assignment

  and necklacing

  personality

  Pulitzer Prize

  the radio scanner

  relationship with Joao

  sensitivity

  and Shariff’s death

  stalking vulture picture

  stays with Judith

  the Sudan trip

  suicide attempt

  talks to Nancy Lee about Ken

  visits Greg in hospital

  visits New York

  Carter, Roma

  Casspirs (armoured vehicles)

  CBS

  Celliers, Rob

  Central Western Jabavu, Soweto

  Chechnya

  Chicken Farm, Soweto, a crucifixion in

  Chisholm, Mark

  Christian Science Monitor

  Ciskei

  Citizen (racist daily)

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Hillary

  CNN

  Coetzee, Captain Dirk

  Cohen, Tom

  Coles, Dave

  Colton, Jimmy

  Columbia University

  Comley, Robin

  Communist Party

  asks supporters to exercise restraint

  unbanning of

  coms

  comtsotsis

  Conservative Party

  constitution

  Croatia

  Croats

  Crown Mines

  Cuban military instructors

  dagga (marijuana)

  Dai Roku Nippon Primary school, Arakawa Ward, Tokyo

  Daley, Suzanne (NYT bureau chief)

  Daniszewski, John

  Davidson, Kathy

  De Klerk, F.W.

  Dinka tribe

  Distance

  Dlomo, Sylvia

  drive-by shootings

  Drum magazine

  Durban

  ANC national conference (1991)

  Mkhize’s home

  elections

  Election Day (27 April 1994)

  Emergency Regulations

  European newspaper

  Faas, Horst

  Facey, Tim

  Farrell, Denis

  Foreman, George

  Formaneck, Ingrid

  Freedom Charter

  Freedom Front

  gold mines

  Goldstone Commission

  Gona, Zaïre

  government security units

  Greybe, Johann

  guarantee system

  Gubb, Louise

  guerrilla training camps

  Hadley, Rob

  Hani, Chris

  Hillbrow

  homelands

  captive labour pool in

  disbanded

  purpose of

  starvation in

  Hostel War

  Hutus

  IFP see Inkatha Freedom Party

  impi (band of armed men)

  impimpi (spy)

  India

  indunas (headmen)

  influx-control laws

  Inhlazane train station, Soweto

  Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)

  and ANC

  the battle in Thokoza

  becomes a political party

  in Bekkersdal

  and Bishop Khumalo

  and Boipatong massacre

  a chauvinist Zulu movement

  and the elections

  in Kathlehong

  networking

  and the police

  political leadership

  seat of power

  secretly receives weapons and military training

  Ulundi stronghold

  and the Vaal Monster

  wants secession

  Innes, Vivian

  intelezi (protective potion)

  Iraq, Scud attacks on Israel

  isazi (deceitful city-slickers)

  isiZulu language

  Israel

  Israel, Iraqi Scud attacks

  Jabulani Hostel, Soweto

  Jabulani stadium, Soweto

  Jenetwa, Joyce

  and Eunice

  and Mimi

  and Sisi

  and Tamara

  and zombies

  Jenks, Paul

  Jerusalem

  Johannesburg

  and gold mines

  Joao moves to

  Mitterand in

  racially mixed areas

  the Reef

  resuscitation unit

  white

  Johannesburg Supreme Court

  Juba

  Judaism, revival in Hungary

  Judith (of Reuters)

  Kabul

  Kaffirboetie

  ‘kaffirs’

  ‘kafirs’

  Kalahajane

  Kathlehong

  Khalanyoni Hostel

  Khartoum government

  Kheswa, Victor Khetisi (the Vaal Monster)

  Khumalo, Alf

  Khumalo, Bafana

  Khumalo, Bishop Mbhekiseni

  Khumalo Gang

  Khuthuze Hostel

  Khyber Pass

  Klip River

  Kliptown

  Kongor, Sudan

  KwaMadala Hostel

  KwaMashu township, near Durban

  KwaZulu-Natal

  kwela music

  Kyalami racetrack

  Leafax scanner

  Leandra township

  Lebowa

  Lee, Nancy

  Leeufontein

  Lesotho

  Lesotho army

  liberation movements

  demonized

  lack of a serious military campaign

  Marxist-influenced ideologies

  unbanning of

  Living magazine

  Lloyd, Julia

  Lloyd, Megan

  Lokichokio, Kenya

  Lusaka

  MacLeod, Scott

  ‘Madala’

  Madala Hostel

  Mafeking

  Mafikeng

  Magubane, Charles

  Magubane, Peter

  Malebane, Rocky

  Mandela, Nelson

  and Alf Khumalo

  assassination plot

  and the Boipatong massacre

  demonization

  and the elections

  first state visit as president

  on Ken’s death

  Kevin sent to cover a speech

  Kevin’s photographs

  leads the ANC

  Nobel Peace Prize

  release from prison

  status of a demi-god

  sworn in as president

  Mandela, Winnie

  Mandela Park shanty town

  Mandrax

  Mangope, President Lucas

  Manic Street Preachers

  Maputo, Mozambique

  Marais, Chris

  Marinovich, Bart

  Marinovich, Franka

  Marinovich, Greg

  appearance

  backg
round

  and Boipatong massacre

  and the Bophuthatswana crisis

  childhood

  in Croatia

  death of his mother from cancer

  disabilities after being shot

  education

  effect of trauma

  engagement

  first assignment since being shot

  flees South Africa

  further woundings

  and Gary’s death

  and Ken’s inquest

  at Kevin’s funeral

  and Kevin’s Pulitzer Prize

  level-headedness

  makes a hero out of Ken

  photographs himself voting

  pseudonym (Sebastian Balic)

  Pulitzer Prize

  and the question of helping wounded civilians

  recovery after the shooting

  relationship with Heidi

  shot in Thokoza

  street parties in Soweto

  told of Kevin’s suicide

  Marinovich, Mladen

  Maseru, Lesotho

  Mashur, Riek

  Mathope, Aaron

  Mathope, Klaas

  Meadowlands Hostel, Soweto

  Meadowlands Zone One suburb, Soweto

  the elections

  the Rapoo family

  Mendel, Gideon

  Mitterand, François

  Mkhize, Brian

  Mlangeni, Bheki

  Mmabatho

  Montgomery, ‘Monty’

  Mozambique

  Mpandlane

  Mshaya’zafe Hostel

  Msibi, Sam

  Mthembu, Victor

  Nachtwey, Jim

  the battle in Thokoza

  in Bophuthatswana

  and the elections

  and Kevin’s trip to New York

  and the shooting at Thokoza

  Nairobi

  Nakajimaa, Hisaye

  Namibia (previously South West Africa)

  Nancefield Hostel, Soweto

  Nangalembe, Chris

  Narcotic Anonymous

  Natal South Coast

  Natalspruit Hospital, Thokoza

  National Party

  National Peace-Keeping Force

  and the ANC

  and Ken’s death

  Ndaleni township, Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal

  necklacing

  New South Africa

  New York City

  Kevin’s visit

  New York Times, The (NYT),

  Newdare

  Newsweek Magazine

  Nguni language

  Ngwenya, Juda

  Nicol, Stuart

  ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ (liberation anthem)

  Noirmont, Patrick de

  Nuer tribe

  Nustar, Croatia

  NYT see New York Times, The

  Nzima, Sam

  Oaktree Hotel, Nairobi

  Oosterbroek, Geri

  Oosterbroek, Ken

  appearance

  and the Boipatong massacre

  in Bophuthatswana

  built up into a hero

  chief photographer at The Star

  daughter Tabitha

  diary

  effect of trauma

  friendship with Joao

  hires Joao

  Ilford Award

  inquest

  Joao’s pictures

  and Kevin’s Pulitzer Prize

  killed in Thokoza

  marriage

  personality

  photographs a girl rescued from an impi

  posthumous exhibition and book of photographs

  professionalism

  and the Thokoza monument

  unthinking racism

  wake and funeral

  Oosterbroek, Monica (née Nicholson)

  Operation Lifeline Sudan project, Girgiri (United Nations)

  Pakistan

  Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC)

  armed wing of

  and the police

  and the Soweto stay-away

  unbanning of

  Papuk mountains, Croatia

  Parkview Hotel, Nairobi

  pass laws

  Pegleg (Inkatha gunman)

  People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)

  Persson, Mikey

  Petersen, Hector

  Phola Park squatter camp, Thokoza township

  PictureNet Africa

  Pietermaritzburg university

  Pinder, Rodney

  PLAN see People’s Liberation Army of Namibia

  police

  and Afrikaans

  antipathy towards ANC supporters

  and the Boipatong massacre

  of Bophuthatswana

  campaign of killings and terror

  the code of silence

  death of Johannes Rapoo

  efforts to trace ‘Seb Balic’

  forcible removals to Soweto

  and Inkatha

  and Peter Magubane

  and the Rapoo incident

  retention of jobs

  and the third-force theory

  and the Tshabalala killing

  and the Vaal Monster

  Vlakplaas police unit

  political violence, escalation of

  Pondo tribe, a death in Soweto

  Portugal

  Pretoria

  racism

  the Freedom Front

  and Ken Oosterbroek’s unthinking attitude

  of the right-wing militia

  radio scanners

  Rain Queen (Modjadji)

  Rallo, Siphiwe

  Ramaphosa, Cyril

  Rand Daily Mail

  Rapoo, Johanna

  Rapoo, Johannes

  Rapoo, Maki

  Rapoo, Sandy ‘Tarzan’

  Rapoo, Stanley

  Rapoo, Tshoena Reginald (Boytjie)

  Rapoo family

  Reedwaan

  Reedwaan, Pippa

  Reef

  Renamo rebels

  Renfrew, Barry

  Reuters

  Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal

  Rinke, Heidi

  appearance

  the Boipatong massacre

  and the Bophuthatswana crisis

  covers the Serbo-Croat war

  and Greg’s shooting

  and Ken’s death

  and the question of helping wounded civilians

  relationship with Greg

  the Sebokeng incident

  and zombies

  Rustenburg

  Rwanda

  SADF see South African Defence Force

  Sahafi Hotel, Mogadishu

  sanctions

  Sandton Field and Study Centre

  sangomas (spirit mediums)

  Sarajevo

  schools, township

  Sebokeng township

  family slain in

  self-defence units

  Serbo-Croat war

  Serbs

  seSotho language

  seTswana language

  Sharia Law

  Shariff, Abdul

  shebeen queens

  shebeens

  Shell House, Johannesburg

  Silva, Joao

  in Afghanistan

  appearance

  the battle in Thokoza

  and the Boipatong massacre

  in Bophuthatswana

  childhood

  in Ciskei

  dagga smoking

  effect of trauma

  and the elections

  engagement

  enthusiasm

  friendship with Ken

  and Gary’s death

  Ilford Award

  joins AP

  in Kathlehong

  Ken hires at The Star

  and Ken’s funeral

  and Ken’s inquest

  Kevin borrows from

  at Kevin’s funeral

  and Kevin’s Pulitzer Prize

  and Kevin’s suicide

 
and Kevin’s vulture picture

  in Lesotho

  makes a hero out of Ken

  and Mitterand’s visit

  and Mkhize

  motor-sport fan

  in Mozambique

  national Press Photographer’s award

  personality

  photographs female killers in Thokoza

  pictures of Ken’s body

  and the question of helping wounded civilians

  relationship with Kevin

  the Sebokeng killings

  and Shariff’s death

  and the shooting at Thokoza

  smashes his cameras

  street parties in Soweto

  the Sudan trip

  takes up photography

  told of Kevin’s suicide

  the wake for Ken

  Skosana, Maki

  Slovo, Joe

  Somalia

  Sophiatown

  Sotsu family

  South African army

  South African Defence Force (SADF)

  South African government

  democratically elected

  demonizes liberation movements

  and the Tshabalala killing

  South West Africa (later Namibia)

  South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO)

  SouthLight photo-agency

  Soweto

  declares a public holiday (1990)

  dependent on white cities

  the elections

  lack of amenities

  lack of trees

  Mandela and Mitterand in

  politically-motivated fighting

  protest against compulsory use of Afrikaans in education

  South Africa’s largest black city

  street parties

  taxation

  uprising (1976)

  Spira, Dave

  SPLA see Sudanese People’s Liberation Army

  Springboks

  Stanford, Simon

  The Star

  States of Emergency

  stay-aways

  Stevens, Robert

  Strand, Cynde

  strikes

  Sudan

  adoption of Islamic Sharia Law

  famine

  ‘Famine Triangle’

  food aid

  funding for Kevin’s trip

  government offensive against divided rebels

  independence (1956)

  Kevin’s stalking vulture

  Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)

  Sun City, Bophuthatswana

  Sunday Star

  SWAPO see South West African People’s Organization

  Sygma

  technology

  Terre’Blanche, Eugene

  Theoane, Meshake

  third-force theory

  Thokoza township

  dead zone

  death toll

  described

  the elections

  Ken’s death see under Oosterbroek, Ken

  Lusaka section

  Mandela section

  monument to the dead

  recovery from the bloodshed

  Slovo section

  taxis

  women killers in

  Tillum, Guy

  Time Magazine

  Titsis

  toyi-toyi (militant dance)

 

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